I’ve encountered this issue several times on windows VMs (sadly need a few still) where modern versions of Windows, i.e. Windows 8 will occasionally prevent you from deleting a directory. One was a directory an installer created, in this case Open Office, which was not cleaned up due to a VM crash during the install

Working on updating some ServerTech CDU firmware today I found that they wouldn’t connect to my fresh new FTP server. I checked my firewall, I checked my server log, and saw that they weren’t authenticating correctly:

A few months ago we all saw the dramatic boom in NTP reflection attacks. These attacks exceeded DNS reflection that was so common before it. At the time I was personally experiencing consistent 10 to 40+ Gbps attacks. After a while they started to die down in frequency and volume. I still see many NTP

Hey guys, not a long post today, but thought I’d throw out an easy little tip. I was installing some KVM guests on a CentOS 6.5 storage server and needed a VNC client for my OS X desktop. Found something neat that some of you may already know, but if not, it’s pretty cool.

So this isn’t really the normal theme for my articles. However I’ve reloaded the OS on my MacBook Pro the other day, because my factory hard drive died within 8 months of buying the MacBook. I replaced it with a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD and reloaded the OS via net-install (Apple+R on boot.) About

I see this topic come up a lot with users who migrate to one of our servers or to their own setup with cPanel and suPHP. The user or their customers will install a PHP script such as wordpress, concrete5, etc… Upon testing their installation they will get 500 ISE (Internal Server Error) in their

So you’ve probably not made the switch to InnoDB or XtraDB yet, shame on you! But tonight your server crashed, ran out of disk space or otherwise corrupted all of your active tables across various databases. Ouch! How are we going to fix this one? Many admins try using the myisamchk tool from shell in

I recently had an issue where we lost the password for IPMI to a brand new Supermicro server. The server was running Windows 2008 STD. Not wanting to mess around rebooting the box to a livecd I had to find a solution to reset the password. This could be very useful for those of you

So you’ve decided that you must run php as suPHP on your CentOS 6 based LAMP stack. This is a great idea for security on a multi-site or multi-user environment. Of course management panels like cPanel make running suPHP very easy, but what about the rest of us? Many of us do not use cPanel,